Hugos House of Horrors
This game features Hugo, but its not really his house. You see, his girlfriend got jacked, so hes going to inspect every freaking corner of this haunted-ass house to find her. While inside, he gets experimented on by a mad scientist with a retarded monster assistant, interrupts a dinner between vampires, mummies, and werewolves, and steals everything in sight. The puzzles in this game are pretty stiff and sometimes random, so a walkthrough is essential, unless you like grinding your gearbox brain sitting at 256 colors with some beeps emitting from your PC every now and then. Hugo has a tendency to walk in the same direction, so you have to get used to that. You cant always rely on the graphics to tell you what to do, youll have to use "look around" quite often to discover clues. The game itself is fairly small, which means youll end up in the same area often, trying to figure out what in the hell youre supposed to be doing. Thats the game. Never got very far.
Hugo II: Whodunit?
In this one, Hugo and his girlfriend are staying at a relatives house, whereupon Hugo discovers a secret door and disappears. Then, Penelope (Hugos woman) sees her uncle get murdered. You control Penelope, since Hugo got his dumb ass stolen, and you have to wander around this place and figure stuff out. Its basically the same thing as the first game, only more frustrating, because its more spread out. Some of the best parts of these games are getting instantly killed, a lot. Youre forced to really do things right, or else its going to have some dire consequences. Nobody wants to have to restart the game, so make sure youre saving before you do practically everything. Theres some pretty good graphical scenes in this game, and some others that look like a child drew them. Either or, it didnt spark my attention enough, so I gave the hell up.Hugo III: Jungle of Doom
While Penelope and Hugo were flying over a jungle, they crashed their plane and somehow avoided dying, even though everything else in the world kills them. When they go look for assistance, Penelope gets bitten by a poisonous spider, which causes her to be paralyzed until Hugo can get some antidote. Commence Hugos adventure in the Jungle of Doom. Seemingly crawling through the jungle, Hugo meets a ghost, an elephant, and a bunch of black people that probably want to cook and eat his ass. 
This game seems to have more death traps than the others, making it both fun and extremely frustrating. On top of that, everything is boards apart, and Hugos got a lot of trecking to do. This game has nice graphics and everything is pretty easy to understand, just avoid this dickass witch doctor, hes going to lock you up in a cage and experiment on you. I know, it seems to be some strange fantasies within the creator of this game, but lets not get in to that. David P. Gray also released a first person shooter version of these games.
Nitemare 3-D
First person shooters can be a blast, if theyre done right. When theyre done wrong, however, you wind up grinding your teeth for an hour as you try to redeye your way through a game like this. Nitemare 3-D is indeed, a nightmare of a game. First thing you do is grab a gun and wander your way through what looks like a movie theater, only funeral tunes are playing. Mummies and zombies and shit will grunt at you from around corners, or skeletons and bats will come and take you out. Oh, wait, whats the backstory to this game? After going in to the menu to answer my own question, I discovered that Penelope was jacked and Hugo needs to save her. Again. I think Hugo needs to get a new woman thats going to stop running around on him, giving him a bad groove and shit. This game was entirely too tedious for me and I stopped playing within 10 minutes. Theres lots of secret areas I found out, but what I didnt discover is what anything did, or where the hell I was going.What is boils down to is this; These games are still shareware, meaning youre going to need to pay for the full versions. The final game was released in 1994, and its still being sold to this moment by the author, Dave Gray. After all of the wonderful free games Ive posted, the ones with the least sentimental value and charm continue to be the absolute worst games on the list. David P. Gray, you should consider going freeware so everyone can experience the magic that is Hugo. Lets not forget to mention that he calls these games "for the whole family", and the second one features Uncle getting killed. Thanks. Its also going to cost you $22 if you want to play the full version of these games. Not like it matters, nobody is going to play it if its free or not.
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